Byfailing to prepare you are preparing to fail.

Silenceis argument carried out by other means.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerfuland the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.

To sit alone in the lamp light with a book spread out before you-such is a pleasure beyond compare.

The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Compromise.Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary thesatisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and isdeprived of nothing except what was justly his due.

All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare

Treat peopleas if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what theyare capable of being.

Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is greatfor keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Greatthings come from our luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup ofsoup, and a good idea